An Old West film set seen in countless TV shows and movies is open for the public to explore.

The quiet canyon has a tumultuous history involving a doomsday cult.

Abandoned anti-ballistic missile base.

This magnificent, quirky home sits atop a literal gold mine in the middle of the Nevada desert.

A massive hydrovolcanic explosion left a half-mile wide crater in Death Valley.

The San Andreas Fault spectacularly offsets this creek.

This beloved roadside attraction welcomes visitors with his signature neon smile.

The arch that celebrated the completion of the Lincoln and Victory highways.

Inside this museum, the history of the Walt Disney Family empire is on full display.

This private residence was the template for one of the most beloved television homes of all time.

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

Nestled in the heart of San Francisco’s bustling Financial District stands a unique homage to the Mayan and Beaux Arts.

Faceless white figures loom over the city from the rooftop.

A former hardware store near Yerba Buena is the official home of California's history.

A decommissioned Naval base now rents itself out for people who want to blow stuff up.

Antiques by the Bay.

A 90-acre park on former landfill that hosts an annual kite festival.

A sparse, solitary sequoia still stands as a living tribute to the famous conservationist who planted it—but it's dying.

The only standing town in the United States that early Chinese Americans built for themselves.

One of the oldest reform schools in the United States, home to wayward boys such as Merle Haggard, now abandoned.

An eccentric home stands out in an otherwise average neighborhood with mosaics, mini topiaries, and kinetic sculpture.

A still functioning vaudeville carousel that has operated for over a century boasts a colorful menagerie and past.

A crumbling Beaux Arts monument to the Bay Area's age of rail.

An abandoned convention space that has been left to the homeless and the radical.